For years, a professor has assigned her students to spend three hours with an artwork. A reporter tried this “immersive attention” experiment with a Velázquez masterpiece. Credit... Supported by By ...

Thirteen bronze women in wide pannier skirts stand single file in St. Mark’s Square in central Venice. The large-scale installation is the work of Spanish artist Manolo Valdés and on view for the 60th ...

Some works of art are so beautiful and suggestive that they have inspired creators of all origins throughout history to make their own reinterpretations. This need to confront what is most sublime ...

In total, only five female Sternritter have been presented in the Bleach series, but the five of them – collectively known as the Bambies – made an impact and are among the most popular Quincy in the ...

Art has the ability to cheer us up, to entertain and to provoke new ideas, but it also has the power to create real change in the world. Pablo Picasso once even went so far as to declare, “Painting is ...

Las Meninas, Spanish for ‘The Ladies-in-waiting’, is a 1656 painting by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age. It currently hangs in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain, and is ...

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A small clay pot in Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas could hold the key to unlocking the mysterious 17th-Century painting, argues Kelly Grovier. Sometimes a vase is just a vase. Sometimes it’s a portal ...